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Originally Posted by Axeman
BTW Lenny, the Bosnia thing was a big blunder of trying to overstate her experience and she deserved to be hammered on it, and when Bill brought it back up he and she deserved to be called out on it again.
But to equate inflating the resume vs being condescending and telling people the only reason the rural citizen has religion and guns is because they are bitter about their jobs and economic standing is beyond crazy. Calling the voters bitter wasn't great but it also wasn't the biggest problem. It was the fact he said because they are bitter they cling to their religion and guns and hatred of trade and immigrants. That was just a crazy thing to say, and only said because he thought he was in a closed room of supporters with no press or cameras. If he had just said voters in rural PA were bitter with their job loses and left it at that, it would be pretty much a non story.
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See you're way wrong about what he said. If you read the actual transcript and what he said about it afterwards....and did so honestly without any bias you would see what what he said was true, made alot of sense, but he chose his words poorly.
I read a whole book a few months ago called "What's the Matter with Kansas" in which the author described how middle class people vote against their own economic interest and instead base their votes on issues like gay marriage, gun rights, abortion, etc.
This is basically what Obama was saying....that alot of people figure no matter who is president they're not going to do anything for me economically, they're all in bed with the wall street fat cats, so I may as well vote for the guy who shares my family values, or will protect my right to bear arms, or is against abortion, or whatever.
He never said the only reason they have religion and guns is because they're bitter about their jobs (that would be offensive) he said they base who they're going to vote for on things like guns and religion because they don't believe any politician cares about their economic standing.